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With the participation of 150 unique family offices, this biennial and comprehensive report is designed to assist family office board members and executives in evaluating their compensation plans. Developed in collaboration with Grant Thornton, the report is divided into three main sections: governance structures, staff benefits, and detailed posit...

With the participation of 150 unique family offices, this biennial and comprehensive report is designed to assist family office board members and executives in evaluating their compensation plans. Developed in collaboration with Grant Thornton, the report is divided into three main sections: governance structures, staff benefits, and detailed posit...

The 2024 economic environment presented a complex landscape for family office investments, characterized by heightened global uncertainty and an evolving interest rate backdrop. As central banks, particularly the Federal Reserve, navigate the aftermath of prolonged accommodative policies, family offices are recalibrating their investment strategies...

The 2024 economic environment presented a complex landscape for family office investments, characterized by heightened global uncertainty and an evolving interest rate backdrop. As central banks, particularly the Federal Reserve, navigate the aftermath of prolonged accommodative policies, family offices are recalibrating their investment strategies...

The FOX Global Investment Survey is designed to aid wealth owners and family office executives review the family’s annual investment goals, current allocation and performance decisions. The year the report summarizes the impact of COVID and how families developed new strategies to adapt and achieved greater discipline in decision-making. The report...

The tremendous surge in wealth has made it more challenging to establish a sustainable and successful family office, as revealed in the 2023 FOX Family Office Benchmarking Study. However, this research brief shows that a sustainable family office can be within reach when there is thoughtful planning that incorporates three key ingredients...

FOX’s annual Global Investment Survey was divided into two segments, launched in February and March 2023, respectively, to the FOX community. The surveys fielded until the end of April 2023. Please note that the 2023 FOX Global Investment Survey data pertains to investment activities and performance during calendar year 2022.

Private trust companies; profits interest structures; direct investments. The world of family wealth management is getting more complex all the time. As families and their office management teams evolve and learn best practices, there is a natural tendency to add more complexity to their structure and operations. Recently, we’ve seen this movement ...

Private trust companies; profits interest structures; direct investments. The world of family wealth management is getting more complex all the time. As families and their office management teams evolve and learn best practices, there is a natural tendency to add more complexity to their structure and operations. Recently, we’ve seen this movement ...

Today’s current volatility has made maintaining and creating value from your direct investments more difficult. What are leading indicators telling you about the current climate’s effect on direct and economic drivers? Do you have different forecasting scenarios to navigate out of the uncertainty? The following will help surface key ins...

Family offices are forging ahead despite volatility and uncertainty in the markets—increasing their appetite for direct investments in real estate and operating businesses—as they continue to reassess the more traditional approaches to building investment portfolios.

The FOX Global Investment Survey is designed to aid wealth owners and family office executives in their review of the family's allocation decisions and investment performance each year. This report highlights critical areas as to how families structure their investment decision-making, allocate across their portfolios, staff their investment te...

FOX Foresight – Appeal of Direct Investing shows the growing interest in private company investments. It tells the story of families who are pursuing this opportunity, highlighting the top themes from FOX's research and ongoing conversations with FOX members. It summarizes what we have been learning from the FOX community and our subject matter exp...

This annual FOX survey of investor attitudes and behaviors provides readers with peer perspective from 118 family offices on a wide range of topics, including asset allocation and investment performance, passive versus active investing in long-only equity, 2017 investment trends, benchmarking a multi-asset portfolio, current economic outlook, inves...

The biennial 2022 Compensation and Benefits Report is designed to help family office board members and executives assess the office’s compensation plan. The report highlights key family office compensation and benefits areas, and provides invaluable perspective on your office’s plan relative to your peers. This year’s survey was, once again, dev...